Lot 422:
Sold for: £10
Description
An assortment of decorative ceramics featuring English art pottery and Japanese style porcelain. The group includes a pair of baluster-form vases in the Satsuma style, decorated with raised moriage enamelling and gilded cartouches depicting figures with golden halos against mountainous landscapes. A bottle-form porcelain vase features polychrome enamels of peonies and flowering branches; it is marked to the underside with a blue circular Chinese character mark transcribed as Da Qing Yong Zheng Nian Zhi, alongside a laurel wreath logo reading LENOX. This piece is accompanied by a Brooks & Bentley advertisement titled THE PEONY VASE OF THE CHING EMPEROR, dated July 1991. The lot also includes a bulbous jardiniere with a teal glaze and white floral decoration, bearing a printed shield mark reading L & L LOVIQUE WARE ENGLAND and a script Langley mark to the base. Completing the assortment are a cobalt blue baluster vase with gilded peacock decoration and a large glossy black ceramic pot with a terracotta interior.
Height of Satsuma style vase: 12.5 inches (approximately 31.7 cm).
Condition report:
The Lovique jardiniere exhibits fine age-related crazing throughout the teal and buff glazes (photo 6). The pair of Satsuma style vases show shelf wear and minor soiling to the underside of the foot rims (photo 8). All other items appear in good structural condition with no visible chips or cracks. The promotional paperwork for the Lenox vase is present but shows signs of being previously rolled (photo 3).
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